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Gobbledegook Theatre

Gobbledegook make theatre for unusual places. We specialise in making work for children and families, creating happenings through live performance, music and installation, often for the outdoors.

As theatre artists, our guiding principal is to create or facilitate work which 'renders the familiar strange' for audiences – be it on a seafront promenade, in public gardens, libraries, classrooms or playgrounds. We believe very strongly in play for people of all ages and that the link between theatre, playing and making stories is very close indeed. Gobbledegook are happier presenting work in the foyer of a theatre than being inside the theatre itself. Here's our website: http://www.gobbledegooktheatre.com

Gobbledegook IS theatre artist Lorna Rees, but she often asks other brilliant people to play on a project-by-project basis. Lorna is proud to be from the beautiful county of Dorset and frequently makes work inspired by where she lives.

We have a blog and a twitter feed and you can find links to these on our website.

For b-side multimedia arts festival 2014, Gobbledegook were commissioned to make the Art Confessional, a portable confession booth which enables people to confess to their deepest darkest art desires to the High Priestess of Art (which may include being nude, covered in paint and rolled on a canvass). What art do you confess to liking? Damien Hirst? Constable? Anish Kapoor? Turner? Yoko Ono? Antony Gormley? Or what about Cath Kidston? The Royal Ballet? Coldplay?
Is football art? What art do you love? What do you hate?
What is this thing called art anyway?

Art Confessional is an intimate place to confide about the art which you find most sinful or to divulge those artistic moments which sent you into heavenly rapture. It's a piece of interactive art about art itself.
Depending on the confession, it can be playful, profane or even profound.

You might even find absolution.

Confessions are confidential - although the penance for making a confession is the filling in of an evaluation form. As the Confessional is portable, the priestess will find you.

THE GRASS LADIES

Three delightful ladies, Mo, Daisy and Lawn-a, clad in gorgeous dresses made from artificial turf invite families to participate in some lovely private garden parties… and no party is complete without music!

Listen out for some beautifully sung a-cappella mini-concerts by the lovely Grass Ladies of Gobbledegook Theatre. The Grass Ladies are suitable for everyone, but have been made with very young in mind. The Grass Ladies were commissioned by Winchester Hat Fair and Larmer Tree Festival and perform a set of nursery rhymes, action songs and contemporary pop numbers all of which are performed in their inimitable style.